Two adults, a 7-year-old boy and two 13-year-old girls were rescued from the boat that had taken on water Thursday morning. The call came in at 9:07 a.m. to the U.S. Coast Guard Corpus Christi sector from the Corpus police saying the captain of the 21-foot recreation boat called them about his capsized boat.

The Coast Guard launched an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter from Air Station Corpus Christi and a 45-foot Response Boat from Station Port Aransas to assist.

The crew of the helicopter lowered a rescue swimmer to help the children and one of the adults into the hoist basket. The four were taken to Naval Air Station Corpus Christi where local EMS was standing by.

The swimmer and the captain of the vessel were brought aboard the response boat and taken to Station Port Aransas where local EMS was standing by.

“The life jacket was vital to their survival,” said Lt. Cmdr. Robin Stotz, a pilot with Air Station Corpus Christi. “Without it, it would have been a different story today.”